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...their stately nave & apse, Dr. Sockman's Methodist congregation called on a famed Anglo-Catholic, Medievalist Ralph Adams Cram. Architect Cram is best known for his soaring Gothic fanes-Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at Princeton and West Point, etc.-but decided that Byzantine would look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely...
...outsiders too, Huntsville's Prison roundup is worth riding miles to see. Rodeo fans cram into the Prison Stadium, not because their 50? admission fees go to the Prison System's education fund, but because the convicts put on a rip-roaring show. Besides routine rodeo events-bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding and wild-cow milking-there are entr'actes such as a 50-piece Prison Band, the Cotton Pickers' Glee Club and Bill ("Snuffy") Garrett, a "knobknocker" (safecracker) with 263 years to serve, whose clown act, in top hat and stripes, makes even...
According to the Dean's Office ruling, use of the maps is contrary to a College regulation adopted last May forbidding general patronage of cram schools. Dean Chase's statement follows...
This sudden discovery of what Mr. Cram, terms "the dichotomy between two generations" occurred when a large and articulate section of American college students protested vigorously against involvement of this country in the war. Adler and Cram imply that if youth had the right training, the right ideals, and the right moral perceptions, they wouldn't think as they do about...
Actually, though Adler and Cram have delved into a fundamental educational problem, it is not one which has much bearing on current discussions of national policy. Questions of guns, tanks, production, naval bases, airplanes, the proper size for an army, the extent to which we should participate in the war, and the direction of our diplomacy are not to be solved merely by urging youth to stop disbelieving in ideals and principles. To decide the host of issues which confront him, the citizen must inform himself, and weigh and analyze the evidence in the light of possible alternatives and concrete...